Displaying Word and Excel files on thin clients 1

[kathryn]

Good morning, all.

Here is my problem. We have a number of Word and Excel documents that are currently available on our company Intranet. We have just rolled out the Intranet, so it is only available at HQ. We are slowly beginning to give our branches access, but our branch employees generally have thin clients with IE installed, but no Word or Excel. We CANNOT install anything on the thin clients, such as Key View Pro or Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Excuse my total ignorance, but I have heard something about an Adobe plug-in for Internet Explorer. Since we already have IE installed on the thin clients, this might be feasible. Does anyone know what I'm talking about ('cause I sure don't)

Right now we are thinking that we need to create a custom tag that takes Word/Excel files and coverts them to HTML.

My first thought is to use VBScript and the Object models in Word and Excel to do this.

Has anyone done anything like this? Is this a practical solution? Does anyone have any comments, war stories, references or resources on this
Kathryn

 

[faust13]

I believe that MS has a plugin for NN browsers for viewing Excel and Word docs. This is just for viewing, no editing. ----------------------------------------
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